A Clean, Fresh, Configured Eabi Rootfs Tarball

[2or0]

"rmmod mousedev" doesn't work,  (ERROR: Module is in use)
And in /dev/input, event1 is already there, but no ts0, so why "ln -s ts0 event1"?

If you install udev, please check /etc/init.d/udev and then remove the word "mousedev" in this file not to autoload mousedev module at booting.

[kkazakov13]

Done. Thanks for hosting it.
It's good to have a mirror of jpmatrix's server.
So kkazakov13, do you think you can create a mirror repo of jpmatrix's in your server (of course only after you get debian set up and start playing)?

These days are very intense for me ... I will create a mirror saturday or sunday (hopefully!)

[ZDevil]

Just curious: How is the new tarball now?  Does it work properly?

[adf]

Just curious: How is the new tarball now?  Does it work properly?

will install asap--but that might be a day or two. thanks for doing it in advance, though.

I plan to install to cf, then format and istall to the internal A-data from there. hopefully that works. otherwise i will install to sd

[Fatty]

Just curious: How is the new tarball now?  Does it work properly?

Just installed, w/ kernel 2.6.23.9 yonggun, and played for awhile. Everything works so far  

[ZDevil]

Just curious: How is the new tarball now?  Does it work properly?

Just installed, w/ kernel 2.6.23.9 yonggun, and played for awhile. Everything works so far  

Good.     Is there any other action that you have to take apart/different from those in the instructions?  
Enjoy the debian experience.

[kkazakov13]

with 2.6.23.1 i could not calibrate, some ts_open errors, with 2.6.23.9 is ok.

mplayer with pxa from 2or0's site does not work on both kernels. Reinstalled everything fresh on my C3200, no problems whatsoever except that weird shadows that look like something desynchronized (it flickers a bit too), on the light windows over dark windows or background or sth like this ... it's really annoying  are there any settings to tweak about this desynchronization or flickering or whatever it is ...

[ZDevil]

Can you post a screenshot of the window shadowing thing you've got? I still haven't seen this on both my 3200 and 860.

For the ts_open error, make sure that:
1) There is a line "export TSLIB_CONFFILE="/etc/ts.conf" in ~/.profile, besides export TSLIB_TSDEVICE.
2) The directory /usr/lib/ts is present.

Also I've tried mplayer -vo pxa to play .mpg files and it works great.

[kkazakov13]

Also I've tried mplayer -vo pxa to play .mpg files and it works great.

I know it's working with you ... it's working with everyone else than me

could you give me more info from your system ... trying to find out where the problem might be. Like:

ls -al /dev/fb*

cat /proc/fb

would be nice


P.P. Another question - when I hold down the stylus while in X it's moving around and I often cannot click a button. Is it like this with you ?

[jpmatrix]

P.P. Another question - when I hold down the stylus while in X it's moving around and I often cannot click a button. Is it like this with you ?

it's the actual mouse jittering trouble we're having
the solution is to exit X, rmmod mousedev and restart X
that worked for me, although there's still some jittering but less than with mousedev loaded

[Fatty]

... except that weird shadows that look like something desynchronized (it flickers a bit too), on the light windows over dark windows or background or sth like this ... it's really annoying  are there any settings to tweak about this desynchronization or flickering or whatever it is ...

Okey, I think I understand you. When look closer, I notice a bit flickering on the background. When the menu pops up, the whole background directly above appears to be darker. Well, a bit annoying too, but not as in pdaxrom overclocked and w/o cf.

I don't think we can take a photo to show that.

Good.     Is there any other action that you have to take apart/different from those in the instructions?

Just a minor thing: The emergency mode in Sharp ROM is not bz2 capable. So I have to unzip the rootfs file on PC first. Also, I do have 'unable to open console' error, but I always fail to MAKEDEV within uboot emergency mode. So my install sequence is: at Sharp ROM emergency mode, prepare the internal CF, untar the rootfs, do MAKEDEV, and then install uboot blah blah blah.

[ZDevil]

... except that weird shadows that look like something desynchronized (it flickers a bit too), on the light windows over dark windows or background or sth like this ... it's really annoying  are there any settings to tweak about this desynchronization or flickering or whatever it is ...

Okey, I think I understand you. When look closer, I notice a bit flickering on the background. When the menu pops up, the whole background directly above appears to be darker. Well, a bit annoying too, but not as in pdaxrom overclocked and w/o cf.

Sorry, I still don't understand this, because I don't see what you describe ...  

Good.     Is there any other action that you have to take apart/different from those in the instructions?

Just a minor thing: The emergency mode in Sharp ROM is not bz2 capable. So I have to unzip the rootfs file on PC first. Also, I do have 'unable to open console' error, but I always fail to MAKEDEV within uboot emergency mode. So my install sequence is: at Sharp ROM emergency mode, prepare the internal CF, untar the rootfs, do MAKEDEV, and then install uboot blah blah blah.

The initial console error: instead of MAKEDEV, a simple reboot seems to fix this as well.
I see. I extracted debian eabi under debian oabi and angstrom, so I was not aware of this uncompression issue. Thanks. Will add this to the instructions in the first post.

[ZDevil]

Also I've tried mplayer -vo pxa to play .mpg files and it works great.

I know it's working with you ... it's working with everyone else than me
could you give me more info from your system ... trying to find out where the problem might be. Like:
ls -al /dev/fb*
cat /proc/fb
would be nice
P.P. Another question - when I hold down the stylus while in X it's moving around and I often cannot click a button. Is it like this with you ?

Okay. Here is the output of ls -al /dev/fb*

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crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2007-12-07 20:39 /dev/fb0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 1 2007-12-07 20:39 /dev/fb1
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 2 2007-12-07 20:39 /dev/fb2
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 3 2007-12-07 20:39 /dev/fb3And cat /proc/fb :

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0 PXA
1 overlay1
2 overlay2
3 cursorDoes this help?

Sidenote: apt-get dist-upgrade will replace the preinstalled mplayer (a debianized angstrom package) with the official one, which seems to fail to play with pxa option. Just dpkg -i install the yonggun mplayer deb will get it back.

The jittering issue: how about simply do a ts_calibrate or reboot?

(Posting using epiphany-browser on my 3200  )

[kkazakov13]

Well ... it's just simply not working - nothing from things you guys mention that work with you.

jittering is not removed with rmmod mousedev, slightly less, but still annoying and hard to click sometimes. mplayer DOES NOT work, no matter what i try, what i install - it just does NOT.

and the calibrate - well, i NEVER got it to work like - wherever I click - to be exactly there the pointer. I tried calibrating it about 10 times - there's always some difference.

The most annoying thing still remains these artifacts under X - they are hardly visible sometimes ... mostly are visible on single color darker background - but are visible.

The problem is that I need to work with zaurus sometimes ... and I still cannot without any problems.

[ZDevil]

Umm... suppose you just did exactly what other people (including me) did, and you got all these mplayer, touchscreen and shadowing issues, then I don't really have anything to say on top of my head...  and I can't really explain how these things work for me either.

If i were you, I would just do it all over again if I still want to run Debian. Otherwise, just blame on the bad luck...